I try to be a tolerant person, within reason.

My Meeting's Ministry and Worship committee has proposed a new initiative. Christian Friends and Non-Theist Friends both are minorities views. Most members and attenders, at minimum, believe in God. As is true with many FGC Meetings, especially those based in large cities, religious identification breaks down this way.

It is a worthwhile proposal, one we've needed for a while. At the risk of sounding controversial, I would like to…

I try to be a tolerant person, within reason.

My Meeting's Ministry and Worship committee has proposed a new initiative. Christian Friends and Non-Theist Friends both are minorities views. Most members and attenders, at minimum, believe in God. As is true with many FGC Meetings, especially those based in large cities, religious identification breaks down this way.

It is a worthwhile proposal, one we've needed for a while. At the risk of sounding controversial, I would like to…

I try to be a tolerant person, within reason.

My Meeting's Ministry and Worship committee has proposed a new initiative. Christian Friends and Non-Theist Friends both are minorities views. Most members and attenders, at minimum, believe in God. As is true with many FGC Meetings, especially those based in large cities, religious identification breaks down this way.

It is a worthwhile proposal, one we've needed for a while. At the risk of sounding controversial, I would like to…

I try to be a tolerant person, within reason.

My Meeting's Ministry and Worship committee has proposed a new initiative. Christian Friends and Non-Theist Friends both are minorities views. Most members and attenders, at minimum, believe in God. As is true with many FGC Meetings, especially those based in large cities, religious identification breaks down this way.

It is a worthwhile proposal, one we've needed for a while. At the risk of sounding controversial, I would like to…

I try to be a tolerant person, within reason.

My Meeting's Ministry and Worship committee has proposed a new initiative. Christian Friends and Non-Theist Friends both are minorities views. Most members and attenders, at minimum, believe in God. As is true with many FGC Meetings, especially those based in large cities, religious identification breaks down this way.

It is a worthwhile proposal, one we've needed for a while. At the risk of sounding controversial, I would like to…

New Testament Inspired:

Beautiful Quaker Words: James Nayler’s Deathbed Testimony

There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself. It sees to the end of all temptations. As it bears no evil in itself,…

For too many of our Meetings, the Light's on but nobody's home for us. The Light has taken us to school, but no one is there for our return. We have so many things to tell and share about the experience of being taught; yet, though many are listening for the Teacher, few care to hear from the student.

Where to go, and what to do about this latch-keyed danger?

Jennifer Elam in "Dancing with God Through the Storm" writes, "A container is a safe environment in which to be with…